[ZmaN]

check out this movie!

www.aeonflux.com

it looks SOO good...  the story seems like it will shape up nicely, and the actress is HOT!

[Night Hammer]

Charlize Theron is gorgeous, ill go just for her(just like Italian Job)

[IPAndrews]

I'm a big fan of the original animation so I got excited when I found out there was a movie in the works. The trailer doesn't bode well though. Altogether too light and generic for my liking.

[ZmaN]

Charlize Theron is gorgeous, ill go just for her(just like Italian Job)

OH YEAH!!!!!!!

shes a hottie!

[TrashMan]

Meh...they think some nice SFX and a hottie actress makes a good movie..

Holywood..why am I not surprised?

[Fury]

Look at the above comments. The hottie part works, and without some nice SFX, you couldn't call it a movie when you lack a story.

[an0n]

They call Solaris a movie.....

[DragonClaw]

They call Solaris a movie.....

You deserve to die for even mentioning that godawful piece of cod.

[an0n]

I'm fairly picky insofar as finding films I find truly worthy of having been made, but I generally like all movies that make even the least amount of sense and show the tiniest amount of skill or wit. Even if the story sucks, I can still appreciate things like direction and lighting.

But Solaris just made me feel like I was watching an episode of the Twilight Zone so advanced in it's cinematography that it'd actually managed to have some invisible force reach out of the screen and punch me in the balls repeatedly for two hours.

I felt like I'd just watched the cinematic equivelant of the Holocaust. It was as if they'd taken all my memories of all the films I'd ever watched, torn my ear-hole open and physically raped that part of my brain with a 14-inch penis.

[Shiku]

Did anybody else think that Solaris had EXACTLY the same plot as "Sphere" by Michael Crichton, just in space?
(In Sphere it was an alien artifact crashed under the ocean thousand of years ago, in Solaris it was a planet, other wise, it was prety much the same story, even had some of the same plot twists. Atta way to steal the plot from an already failed movie based on a marginally popular book)

On the topic of Aeon Flux though, it looks pretty interesting, even if it has no story, it has enough of a set up for some interesting action...

EDIT: Sorry about the name confusion ZylonBane, it has been a while since I read the book.

[an0n]

Sphere made sense.

Solaris was just stupid, until the very end where - near as I can figure - they went "OMG! YOU WERE NEVER REAL!".

At that point I just felt like killing myself.

[Shiku]

I actually watched Solaris through a second time to try and figure that ending out. It makes no sense, and came out of no-where, no foreshadowing, no viable setups, hell, not even anything to suggest it ever had time to happen!

God I hate that movie...

EDIT: If I knew where the rage smilie was there would be about 70 of them here

[ZylonBane]

Did anybody else think that Solaris had EXACTLY the same plot as "Sphere" by Stephen King, just in space?

Michael Crichton! Since when does King do science fiction?

No, I mean good science fiction.

[an0n]

Tommy Knockers was pretty good.

[Ace]

Atta way to steal the plot from an already failed movie based on a marginally popular book)

Solaris was based on the Russian movie Solaris, based on the Russian novel Solaris. Which by far outdates and outtrumps "Sphere."

...and the twist at the end in the plot isn't "he was never real!!!111" it's that he decides to stay on the station and crash on the planet. Where he 'lives' his days on the planet. (whether or not he's still human or a figment of the planet is a mystery) It's pretty much based on some deep pseudo-philosophical stuff about "well she's not real because she's based on my memories... well even if she was real my view of her is colored by those memories... ahh screw it this jelly planet version is just about the real thing because of this... HONEY I'M HOME!"

It's more like 2001 in nature.

[Shiku]

Hmmm... It seems I've made an ass of myself 3 time in one day...

Time to stop posting and go back to lurking untill I know engough to return.

[an0n]

So what you're saying is that Solaris is stupid....

[Ford Prefect]

Solaris was based on the Russian movie Solaris, based on the Russian novel Solaris. Which by far outdates and outtrumps "Sphere."

...and the twist at the end in the plot isn't "he was never real!!!111" it's that he decides to stay on the station and crash on the planet. Where he 'lives' his days on the planet. (whether or not he's still human or a figment of the planet is a mystery) It's pretty much based on some deep pseudo-philosophical stuff about "well she's not real because she's based on my memories... well even if she was real my view of her is colored by those memories... ahh screw it this jelly planet version is just about the real thing because of this... HONEY I'M HOME!"

It's more like 2001 in nature.

I'm always intrigued by the frequent use of such terms as "pseudo-philosophical." It seems very difficult to produce a work that will be acknowledged as genuinely philosophical.

Now, I admit that I have not seen the Russian film, nor have I read the novel, (Stanislaw Lem was Polish, not Russian), so I have no basis for comparison, but I didn't think the recent film was bad at all. Even allowing for poor interpretation, I certainly got the impression that Lem wrote far more substantial science fiction than most of what constitutes the genre, which would probably explain its marginal popularity.

[Grey Wolf]

There's quite a bit of substantial SF, most people ignore it though.

[Nix]

Charlize looks pretty hot in black hair..   I still think Uma kicked more ass though. 

I've never really understood these movies that make you think to the point of insanity to figure out the endings.  I'd rather watch Solaris over 2001 any day, and I'm talking about Andrei Tarkovsky's version, the old one, and for that to happen, I better be really bored.  2001's ending, which I STILL do NOT understand to this very day...  I mean, wtf?  What do I learn from that ending?  Big black rectangles are bad?  I'll grow really old in a white room?   At least with Solaris, I could understand that ending a lot better.  Other movies like..  Donnie Darko (?purge?), Altered States (drugs are bad, mmkay?),  I mean, my god.  I want my two hours of my life back!